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Once the virus passes, there’s no reason to let the powerful return peacefully to business as usual.

A Time for Disaster Progressivism

t’s time for progressives to exploit a crisis for political gain. ¶ The novel coronavirus hasn’t tanked an otherwise healthy country; it’s exposed our society for the wobbly tower of inequity and brutishness it already was. Our prisons are full of the harmless and elderly, our jails jam-packed with the legally innocent—all sitting ducks

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